Posted by: nbaground on: January 25, 2010
One can not look at a kindle and not think; IPod. Not only for the fact that with it's black and white screen and white plastic body it kind of looks like the first IPods, but also as what iPods & mp3s generally have done for music, so has kindle done for literature.
Changes in recording & reproduction of writing have come slower then changes in the recording and reproduction of sound, but then again the recording and reproduction of sound is just more than a hundred years old and the ability to write and keep records has been a defining part of civilization as literally the dawn of history.
Not just is the culture of writing essential to qualify civilization but it has also been the instigator of epochs, spreading ideas of the divine, bringing us out of dark ages, mass media and mass literacy defining the world. We live in the age of information no less. And maybe one day, when we consider this in a historical prospective, we'll place the kindle and ebook readers in general together with paper, the printing press, the PC and the internet.
The Kindle is a natural successor to the book, having the size of a small magazine (8" x 5.3" x 0.36") and weighing lower than a paperback (10.2 oz), it could hold approximately 1,500 books.
The books could be purchased and downloaded wirelessly for a fraction of the price of the dead tree edition from the kindle store, which currently holds more than 360,000 titles, directly to your kindle. Your library is automatically backed-up on the web. You could also download leading American and international newspapers, magazines, popular bogs and feeds and audio books.
The kindle carries a dictionary; The New Oxford American Dictionary with over 250,000 entries and definitions and also has free wireless access to Wikipedia.org.
The kindle could read PDF-files and Amazon's Whispernet service; you could send your docs straight to your Kindle and read them anytime, anywhere.
The full QWERTY keyboard allows you make notes and bookmarks, you could add annotations to text, just like you might write in the margins of a book. And because it is digital, you could edit, delete, and export your notes. You could highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future . You'll never require to bookmark your last place in the book, as Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.
Adjustable text size, screen rotation and full image zoom gives you much more options to enhance your reading experience. The kindle will also read for you, sorry, to you with the read-to-me feature in either a male or female voice. The kindle comes with audio jack and built-in speakers.
The kindle has a seven days battery life, two weeks if wireless is turned off, is charged through an USB portal and is completely charged within 4 hours.
I have sympathy for the book, and with my bibliophilic father I have grown fond of my living room with towering bookcases. But as mp3-player hasn't been the death of the LP, the E-book reader won't be the death of book. People still build excellent LP collections, and the bookcase wont soon be something of past. LP's and books have something upon themselves, an emotional bond we've of them. The LP being a symbol of entertainment, artistic skill, and bringing across ideas, book only more so and that of academic virtue, but both are signs of creation. These are not subject to technological progress, rather advancement in media compliment them.
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